Expensive and dysfunctional integration stymies businesses that want to gain full value from generations of investment in application systems. By supporting a vision of end-to-end business processes, ...

IT professionals and business leaders with an interest in cloud services have probably heard the term 'microservices', quite possibly in discussions about service-oriented architecture (SOA). There ...

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) policy adds important business and technical flexibility and control to an SOA-based solution. At runtime, SOA policy provides ready access to change key operating ...

The modularization of business functions for greater flexibility and reusability. Instead of building monolithic applications for each department, a service-oriented architecture (SOA) organizes ...

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) is the foundation of a new platform consisting of loosely coupled software parts. And as anyone reading the computer industry press could attest, the SOA notion is ...

Service oriented architecture is a principle that allows businesses to manage their IT and business transformation in order to give themselves a competitive edge. It offers benefits including insight ...

Service-oriented architecture or SOA is an architecture style, not a product or a project. It’s an improvement over past architectures in that it captures and uses the best practices of the ...

Web-oriented architecture (WOA), a descriptive term for a subset of service- oriented architecture (SOA), has recently arisen as the next buzz-phrase to help further confuse the IT architect. WOA is ...

In light of all the pushing to bring IT to closer to the business, Dana Gardner is proposing an experiment. That is, take an accountant -- or better yet, CFO -- to lunch, to see how much they ...

The post of the break was one by Joe McKendrick, who says, “SOA is integration. SOA is not integration. Simple as that.” In essence, he looks at some of the confusion around the value that SOA brings ...

In the age of cloud-native, service-oriented development approaches can seem to like old news. It's easy for developers and architects to assume that it died a long time ago and has been supplanted by ...

Continued from my last blog...while there are SOA Reference Architectures all over the place, including mine, the best known SOA Reference Architecture (SOA-RA) is defined by OASIS. So, what's a ...